What are Perversions?
Sexuality, Ethics, Psychoanalysis
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2018
210 pages
978-0-429-92378-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores what we mean when we use the term "perversion." Are we dealing with a sexological classification, a mental disturbance, an ethical deviation, a hedonistic style, or an historical-cultural artifact? The book retraces some of the fundamental stages in the field of psychoanalytic thought-from Freud to Masud Khan, Stoller, and Lacan-and proposes an original approach: that "paraphilias" today are taken as an ethical failure of the sexual relationship with the other. The perversions signal a specific relationship with the other, who is treated not simply as a sexual object, but someone whose subjectivity is ably exploited precisely in order to get a perverse pleasure. Acts, if considered perverse, are understood as a metaphorical re-edition of a trauma, above all sexual, in which the subject (as a child) suffered the bitter experience of exclusion or jealousy.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-0-429-92378-4 (9780429923784)
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07/2019
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02/2016
Karnac Books
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Person
Sergio Benvenuto
Content
Introduction , What are perversions? , The pervert's pain , Masochism: ways to power , Sadism: "Punishing women" , Perverse women , Weaning from perversion? , Freud and masochism
